Beatings with fists, plastic bottles full of water, books, truncheons and poles; a special room fitted with a metal table with wrist and leg restraints used for rape; suffocation; electroshocks to different areas of the body -- these are some of the means of torture or other ill-treatment reportedly used by the police in order to extract confessions from detained suspects, Amnesty International said today.
The organization's latest report, Russian Federation: Torture and forced "confessions" in detention, brings to light the practice of torture and ill-treatment throughout Russia in violation of the country's national and international obligations and the lack of convincing efforts to eradicate the problem. (more) http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGEUR460602006
Please See: Russian Federation: Torture and forced "confessions" in detention,(AI Index: EUR 46/056/2006) http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engeur460562006
"Solving" crimes with torture in Russia
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/rus-221106-feature-eng
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org
The organization's latest report, Russian Federation: Torture and forced "confessions" in detention, brings to light the practice of torture and ill-treatment throughout Russia in violation of the country's national and international obligations and the lack of convincing efforts to eradicate the problem. (more) http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGEUR460602006
Please See: Russian Federation: Torture and forced "confessions" in detention,(AI Index: EUR 46/056/2006) http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engeur460562006
"Solving" crimes with torture in Russia
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/rus-221106-feature-eng
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org